From: marc metlicka
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 18:50:13 -0400
Subject: [TSSP] TOPV breakout threashoul
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EF068BAEF34A941A077985B7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm reposting this to the tssp, i know you have to remember these comments i made in the spring? I'm not trying to make enemies, but since "renowned coilers" have jumped on the wagon for the glory (which you spread pretty thick sometimes to the "name" coilers that i sometime think hinder advancement other then advance the good new theories. I just notice my comments are ignored until a time pass, and then they resurface by others with much fanfare? very disconcerting in that when we had only 8 coilers trying to help with gathering data, all were credited for there help. Maybe I'm whining, but i've always hated a "kiss ass" and a "credit grabber". Many things i have discovered in the interim, but what's the point in sharing? still no replies to my early work with bulb glass as a constant breakout voltage test bed? Yet terry will mention it in a month or so and he will become the hero, I've decided to copy my early posts on these subjects and just paste them to posts that feel it is a new discovery. Take care Paul, Always a friend to you. Marc Hi Terry, list This type of a set-up is what i was using when i was trying to find the "breakout threshold" voltage for the TSSP a while back Maybe you remember my comments on the project discussion groups mail? Anyway, I found that even though the different coils or configs caused wildly different needs from the line PSU, there seemed to be a steady topload voltage that it took to breach the glass of the 1000 watt incandescent i was using? With each different set-up, or coil, the plasma within the glass envelope would vary intensely, but it seemed to me that the point where the discharge would breakthrough the glass was some kind of constant? This didn't seem effected by frequency, It didn't seem effected by any outer field density from different sized coiltoploads, but each different set-up or coil would need a different input voltage from the variac to get ac breakthrough discharge (always the same PSU) This is why i'm thinking that the voltage to get breakout from the glass might be even. Maybe now that a topV probe has been found, this could be investigated? I thought i would mention it on the list in case anyone would like to pick up where i left off in the spring? Take care Marc M. > > Here is a neat picture I took with the coil lighting a mercury vapor bulb. > I think they sell these at the hardware store for less the $10. > > http://hot-streamer.com/temp/P9290027.jpg > > Cool that the streamers were coming off the glass and were so straight at > first. I think I'll get on of these neat bulbs myself! > > We also cooked all kinds of things like these three CDs taped to the toroid: > > http://hot-streamer.com/temp/P9290030.jpg > > Cheers, > > Terry > --------------EF068BAEF34A941A077985B7 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mystuffs.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for marc metlicka Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mystuffs.vcf" begin:vcard n:Metlicka;Marc x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Mem Builders;R & D adr:;;6668 hyde rd.;windsor;Ohio;44099;USA version:2.1 email;internet:mystuffs@orwell.net title:Tech. fn:Marc Metlicka end:vcard --------------EF068BAEF34A941A077985B7--
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